Several topics dealt with in the MUSE files posted on this web-site are also analysed in a book : Thinking in Physics The pleasure of reasoning and understanding, by Laurence Viennot. This book is mainly aimed at teachers and teacher trainers. It relies on the same principles as those which inspire project MUSE.

The book has three parts: • making sense of special scientific ways of reasoning (words, images, functions)• making connections between very different topics, each illuminating the other• simplifying, looking for consistency, and avoiding incoherent over-simplification

Table of ContentsPart I Learning to think: words, images and functions- Essential tools for comprehension - Some surprising invariances- Analysis of functional dependence: a powerful tool - Putting things into practice Part II Physics: Linking factors- Links between phenomena in terms of type of functional dependence.- Te relationships between different approaches to the same phenomenonPart III Simplicity: ruin or triumph of coherence?- Optimising simple experiments- Popularising physics: what place for reasoning?